Special education advocates press OUSD to hire more experienced teachers | The Education Report

Special education advocates press OUSD to hire more experienced teachers | The Education Report

Special education advocates press OUSD to hire more experienced teachers

By Katy Murphy
Monday, June 6th, 2011 at 5:13 pm in special education, students, teachers.

In the last two years, teaching candidates from Oakland Teaching Fellows and Teach for America pretty much had a lock on all open special education positions in the Oakland school district.

All but three of the 70 new hires during that time period were teachers placed in Oakland schools through one of those two programs, according to a report the school district released today.

But district staff say in the report that is about to change:

This year, we made no job guarantees with OTF or TFA, so we’ll group partner program teachers and all external hires in same pool, so principals and program coordinators will be able to make the selection they deem the best fit.

The report (posted in full, below) was issued in response to a public records